[X4U] Windoze on Intel Macs

[Kunga]

While Boot Camp is a step forward - allowing those who need it access  
to XP only applications they must have for work or games - the more  
secure and popular solution will be the one that lets you run XP or  
Vista in a window while you are in OS X taking advantage of the  
Virtualization hardware that is built in the new Intel processors.  
This $49 solution is about to be announced by a small firm just  
outside Washington DC called Parallels.

<http://www.parallels.com>

Here's the pre-announcement article published Tuesday:

<http://www.techworld.com/opsys/news/index.cfm? 
newsid=5712&pagtype=samechan>
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On Apr 5, 2006, at 9:59 PM, Clifford H. Readout, Jr. wrote:

> I've been reading the traffic about Bootcamp, Windows on Intel Macs.
>
> The inherent Windows vulnerability factor does need to be addressed  
> by Apple
> before I'll be convinced it is a good idea to allow it run on the  
> Intel
> Macs.
>
> I've been trying to understand why it is a good idea for Apple to  
> do this.
> Is it to make it less appealing for a couple of hackers to do it?   
> Then this
> question came up: how many of you know someone who converted to  
> Macs after
> being well exposed to the Mac OS?  I don't know anyone who was  
> significantly
> exposed to the Mac who didn't prefer its OS, and many, many of them
> converted the next time they bought a computer.  My guess is that  
> it will be
> the ultimate showdown of the OS wars.
>
> It may be just in time, too.  Those wars are becoming less  
> meaningful, even
> for we fanatics, and before long, too few people are going to care  
> about the
> OS, but only about the applications they need and games they want.